This is my first Genesis game and I'm already wondering how Sega lost the console wars. I love that this game is basically what a 5-year-old boy would pitch for a game studio: What if you had a gun that shot a million bullets per second and you shoot a million enemies and they all explode, and there are like 50 bosses and you go to space to shoot them all at the end? But somehow this game does such a good job at keeping the chaos on-screen understandable, satisfying, and fresh. I started levitating by the time I got around to the mining cart level boss and that's not even halfway into the game. If I played this as a kid I would be the most annoying fucking hyperactive child in existence.

I always liked this game, never quite loved it, just thought it was a bit easy and underwhelming at times. Finally decided to take on expert mode, first 6 stages are a blast, great fun, challenging, and rewarding. I can't remember the last time I dropped a game on the last level, but I just couldn't stand it. Genuinely terrible, nigh avoidable, and unreactable attack patterns on the buff guy boss. Combined with the fact the weapon drops are complete RNG as to what you get, it's pretty miserable. Genuinely horrible end to an otherwise great game, what a disappointment.